SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Normal Accidents, Dependent And Independent Variables, Anthropocentrism
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People who occupy the command posts of legitimized power structures. Recognizes the right to free speech, freedom of religion, and justice before the law. Maintains that well-to-do people consistently have more political influence than people who are less well-to-do and that society is therefore not as democratic as it is often portrayed. Process by which individual interests, beliefs, and values either become congruent and complementary with the activities, goals, and ideology of a social movement or fail to do so. Post-1950s movements that attract a disproportionately large number of highly educated people in the social, educational, and cultural fields and universalize the struggle for citizenship. Holds that society has many competing interests and centres of power and that no one interest or power centre predominates in the long run. Recognizes the right to run for office and vote. Concerted attempt on the part of many people to overthrow existing political institutions and establish new ones.
